A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. ---Robert Heinlein

The Canadian military issues the Russell #3 Boat and #4 Survival knives top shelf items both.
The Canadian Arctic Parka although heavy in weight might be one of the best in the world
The new Canadian Ranger patrol rifle is manufactured by Sako of Finland but assembled by Colt Canada.

Griz

Hopefully the S won't HTF and I pray every day that it won't. It would not be fun.

I have a high art..I wound with cruelty, all who wound me...Archillocus; 650 B.C.

A few more:
British Army headover.
More adaptable than a balaclava.
Buy one in wool if possible
USA MREs.
Others issue MREs, but none are as good as US Army MREs
German Army Flecktarn jacket.
I bought mine in Fort Worth. So many good advantages that I cannot list them all.
They now have a German Army Gore-Tex Flecktarn jacket.

(01-22-2018, 12:54 PM)WetFootWilley Wrote: The venerable woobie needs to go on this list

WFW

What's a woobie?

I'll add

Chapstick original-plain.

and I heard they discontinued trioxane bars for MRE heating??? What do they issue now, cuz I love that stuff....

AOC

Everyone knows a woobie is a baby wookie!

Message of Insight and Unity

We go into the wilderness to fulfill our hearts and empty our minds of life's garbage.
The gear we leave behind and the challenges we encounter,
Are methods we use to cleanse our spirits.
Of Survivalists and Bushcrafters, Primitive Technologists too, we are one.........

It is the wilderness within, we strive for first and always.
Not everyone can have a cabin in the mountains.
The thread that connects us, is fine like silk and strong as steel.
Together, the song of the wilderness is the song we sing!

"And can I say something else?"
Bushcrafting is "doing what you want to do."
Survival is "doing what you have to do"
Primitive Technology is about all of the above........